Berniegourley

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• Fungi Mind [Free Verse]

  

  From its perspective, we live in a vacant upside down underworld. It can't understand our terror over death and our obsession with life. Just thinking abou... Read more

  Posted on 17 September 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• Streetcorner Socrates [Free Verse]

  

  A streetcorner Socrates calls out those who grow forests of words -- not because he doesn't love the trees, but because they impede his view, making for... Read more

  Posted on 17 September 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Gorgias by Plato

  Amazon.in PageProject Gutenberg This Socratic dialogue explores what rhetoric is, and whether rhetorician is a real job, like plumber or secretary, or whether... Read more

  Posted on 16 September 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Poetry and Prose of the Tang and Song [Trans. by Yang Xianyi &...

  Poetry and prose of the Tang and Song by Yang Xianyi My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon.in Page This collection includes works from eighteen prominent poets and... Read more

  Posted on 16 September 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: The Aleph by Jorge Luis Borges

  The Aleph : including the prose fictions from The Maker by Jorge Luis Borges My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon.in Page This book contains the seventeen stories of... Read more

  Posted on 16 September 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Ashes, Ashes by Jean-David Morvan

  Amazon.in Page Out: October 5, 2021 [Note: The book I'm reviewing is the 144-page multi-issue story.] This is the story of a technological apocalypse and a... Read more

  Posted on 15 September 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Alcibiades I & II by Plato

  Amazon.in Page While these two dialogues feature Socrates questioning Alcibiades (a youth - apropos of nothing - for whom the philosopher has the hots,)... Read more

  Posted on 14 September 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• Ruins in the Tall Grass [Free Verse]

  

  Nature dresses up the detritus of our fallen civilizations. After all but the most resolute stonework has crumbled, cool faces of stone having sloughed off... Read more

  Posted on 14 September 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• Bucktoothed Monkey Mastermind [Common Meter]

  

  I saw a bucktoothed monkey sit on the ground all alone. It looked the doofus - its dental- mental shortfall shone, but is the size of incisors a measure of one'... Read more

  Posted on 13 September 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: The Department of Truth, Vol. 1 by James Tynion IV

  The Department of Truth, Vol 1: The End of the World by James Tynion IV My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon.in Page This is the cleverest and most mind-blowing... Read more

  Posted on 13 September 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• How to See the World as a Traveler in 14 Quotes

  

  The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see. -G.K. ChestertonIf you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion, and... Read more

  Posted on 12 September 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• The World Through the Eyes of a Traveler in 14 Quotes

  

  The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see. -G.K. ChestertonIf you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion, and... Read more

  Posted on 12 September 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: What Makes You Not a Buddhist by Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse

  What Makes You Not a Buddhist by Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon.in Page This book provides exposition of the Four Seals (not to be... Read more

  Posted on 09 September 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• Balance & the Value of Learning to Fall

  

  I saw something sad in the park this morning. A boy was trying to learn to ride a bicycle, but I could see that he never would - not with his present approach.... Read more

  Posted on 09 September 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: A Very Irish Christmas by Various

  A Very Irish Christmas: The Greatest Irish Holiday Stories of All Time by Various My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon.in Page Out: September 14, 2021 This anthology... Read more

  Posted on 09 September 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• March of the Myna [Common Meter]

  

  A Myna bird comes marching in; it'll soon rule the roost. It seldom fails to have its way anyplace it's introduced. The goggle shapes around its eyes make its... Read more

  Posted on 08 September 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Hipparchus by Plato

  

  Hipparchus by Plato My rating: 5 of 5 stars On-line In this Socratic dialogue about "lovers of gain," Socrates and an unnamed friend debate whether pursuing... Read more

  Posted on 08 September 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Lovers by Plato

  B N Page Alternately titled "Rival Lovers," "The Lovers," or, simply, "Lovers," this is one of the Socratic dialogues whose authorship by Plato is in doubt.... Read more

  Posted on 07 September 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Cocaine Coast by Nacho Carretero

  Cocaine Coast: A Luis Bustos Graphic Novel by Nacho Carretero Amazon.in Page Out: September 28, 2021 This is a graphic novelization of a journalistic account... Read more

  Posted on 07 September 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Richard III by William Shakespeare

  King Richard III by William Shakespeare My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon.in Page Like , this is the story of one man's unchecked ambition bringing about his... Read more

  Posted on 06 September 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL